What was the full birth name of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe?

Georgia O'Keeffe's full birth name was Georgia Totto O'Keeffe.

She was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, to Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe. Her middle name, Totto, came from her maternal grandfather, George Victor Totto, who was of Hungarian descent.

O'Keeffe became one of the most important American modernist painters of the 20th century. Her name is often shortened in biographies and museum labels to Georgia O'Keeffe, which can make the middle name less familiar. She later used the same name professionally, including after her 1924 marriage to photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Her family moved from Wisconsin to Virginia during her childhood, and she studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York. Those early experiences preceded her breakthrough as an abstract artist and later painter of flowers, New York buildings, and New Mexico landscapes.